This means we ended up being the first people to ever see him perform playing with a new geeky toy. It looked very much like this:

I also, briefly, met Rory Parle.

We also ended up with covers of The Saturday Boy and “Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?” The latter of which doesn’t appear to have made it to YouTube yet. Most of the rest of the concert did, though

So I’ve joined them up, and opened the first public aqwiki instance.

You can now edit the Aquarionics.com main CSS file on this wiki page over here. Go forth, redesign my site

Also, Pancakes with icecream and melted chocolate for the win.

I had a big rant about RSS and Atom and how it’s just fucking life up for those of us who want to produce things where the user can press a button and have it Just Work.

But I can’t be bothered, so here’s the straight dude’s guide to Brokeback Mountain

My excuse isn’t very good, it’s that I’m playing The Movies instead (Which is, in Quick-Capsule-Review mode: Theme Movie Studio).

From The Mailbag:

Hello, I have found your website aquarionics.com by searching Google for “pirate 20/20 kitchen design software”. I think our websites has a similar theme, so I have already added your link to my website.

Now, if their website was really about Pirate Kitchens and how to design them (one of these with a complete set of mini-cutlasses? Hardwood countertops, Pirate flags, &c.) I’d add the link like a shot. Alas, it’s a sub-Yahoo site directory with no real purpose at all. Damnit.

I should mention it here, since I’ve said it everywhere else. I’m moving house again, possibly before Christmas. It’s not my choice, but since very few things this year have been I ought really to be used to it. I’ve dusted off the Very Big Net with which I go house-hunting, and will be taking it with me to Bedford. First viewing was a perfect flat I couldn’t get the deposit in line fast enough to afford, Second is tomorrow (and I will take my chequebook with me :-))

[Edited: Go read One City, One Community. Now. ]

Today is not Valentines. I have therefore repainted Aquarionics blue in celebration of this fact.

(Seriously, this year the “I hate Valentines” brigade have done more than any other factor in turning the day sour for anyone who would otherwise have enjoyed it, treated it as a bit of fun, whatever. If you feel that strongly about it, pick another day of the year and celebrate “Happy Depressed Singletons” day instead, and stop poisoning other people’s enjoyment of existing traditions.)

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